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Re: Mars lander (Re: How to achieve application reliability)
- From: brett watson
- Date: Mon Dec 06 11:03:42 1999
> How can you be so sure the hosts you were hitting with pings and
> traceroutes were the same hosts? It's quite possible smoke and mirrors
> were in between (smoke: web directors answering the pings... mirrors:
> anycast addressing with policy routing).
>
> It's getting pretty wierd to debug IP these days...
sure, i was admittedly making some blind assumptions. i didn't check
any dns entries. then again we've all seen a few other "media events"
fall over and die because folks haven't done the server/os/app side
very well.
-brett
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